Breast Cancer Awareness Month...& CoSF Blog...new posts

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month....so make sure you do your breast check and if you have any concerns, please get yourself to your doctor.....

I went to a Scrap Pink Breast Cancer Fundraiser Crop at the Scrapping Turtle this past weekend...it was SO much fun!!! Here's a few pics from the day.....

Noel, Me, Catherine

(Noel was the best dressed winner....and rightly so..... she looked AWESOME!!!!!!)

Our Fearless Leaders....Lori and Hannah!!!

My winning eyepatch!! I got a great Bazzill book....Under the Covers...it's got some great ideas!!

Our yummy cake!!!!! Very cute!!

It was so much fun! Thanks again Lori and Hannah....SO glad you raised a lot of money for both the Susan Gomen Foundation and our local breast cancer society.

Excellent job!! (Now please take some time to rest!!!!!!!!)

ALSO

There have been a few dares posted on the Circle of Scrapping Friends blog....and a couple new posts...check them out here

Thanks for checking it out! Hope to have you participate in our dares!! We want to help you step out of the box....and most importantly, HAVE FUN!!!

Circle of Scrapping Friends

Hello Everyone! Just wanted to let you know about a new blog that a team of us have started! Jenn, Kim, Kelly and I (Amanda) wanted to integrate the traditional way of scrapbooking and also introduce the digital aspect of our beloved craft! So please check out our blog for dares, contests and tons of fun!!! We hope you join us in having some fun and maybe even learning a thing or two!!!

www.circleofscrappingfriends.blogspot.com

Thanks for checking us out!

(Please feel free to add us to your blog links!)

The first dare will be posted on Saturday September 29th

ONLINE CROP @ SavvyNSassy.com

Join me as I participate in the Savvy N Sassy "Colourful Christmas Crop" on November 9th to 18th....should be lots of fun with some great challenges and cool projects and fun games.....Please watch the website for more details closer to the date!!! There will be more details posted soon!!

I'm a Sister

I've been chosen to be featured on my fellow scrappers' blog, Deanne and Carla and their other sisters (related-sisters)blog...it's the Sisterhood of Scrap and I've been asked to join their "family" of scrappers...so please check out their blog! They just finished their online crop. I wasn't able to take part because of family issues that arose quite suddenly but I know just from reading it that they had a lot of participants!! Great job ladies! Hope you do another one soon!!!

I'm honoured to be chosen and I hope you all visit their site and join the sisterhood!!!

So I LOVE my dad!!!

So I just love my dad! He's the greatest!!! He's amazing....I bought these old kitchen cupboards from a yard sale for $20 and he created this!!!!!



Isn't it GREAT!?!?!?! I LOVE IT!! He's AWESOME!!! Here's some more pics...the befores and afters!!!






Don't mind the mess on the counter!!! (I'm making up swap packages!!)





I LOVE MY PAPER RACK!!!!

This was the mess today while cleaning up!! It's a little more difficult to sort your scrapbooking stash with an 18-month-old.....

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BTW, do you think I have a ribbon obsession?! And I got more today from the Savvy N Sassy forum I'm on!!!




GOT RIBBON?!?!?!?!

SnS Ribbons!

I got my Savvy n Sassy ribbons today!!!!! So I'm going to get creating!!!!!!! Thanks Rhea and Share! I love them!!! And I'm passing on some of them in a swap!!! So Michele, you'll be getting some of these wonderful ribbons!!!!!

Savvy 'n' Sassy Guest Design Team Position

I got chosen for a Guest spot on the Design Team on the Savvy 'n' Sassy online store and scrapbooking forum. I'm so excited! The site focuses on using RIBBON RIBBON RIBBON!!! They feature ribbon kits each month...I can't wait to get mine....I think it's a great way to get a foot in the door! I'll post my creations when I'm done!! I've posted my first challenge too! Check out the site! It's a great place!!! I love it!

Scraplifting!

This is my fellow scrapper Kim's beautiful layout! Doesn't she have the most beautiful family?!?! ;0) You'll have to check out her blog too! (Click the link on her name above! It even plays music!)

Well, I saw this layout that she created and I just loved the idea. So I "scraplifted" it for an order I had for a little girl's album. It's such a great idea!!! Thanks KimmyKimKim!!!

This is mine for the album. My thought was to put a beautiful little pic of the little girl in the middle of the sunshine. I was happy with the end result. Thanks for the inspiration Kim!

Basic Grey....again.....

I got another project accepted on the Basic Grey website gallery! I created an altered milkcan with the BRAND NEW Infuse collection. (Thanks Hannah!!) Here it is:

Here's the link: http://www.basicgrey.com/catalog/idea_gallery_info.php?idea_gallery_id=21497

I know it's not a magazine or paying stint but it's a foot in the door. It's my name on a manufacterer's website! :D It made my weekend seeing that we came home early from camping 'cuz of the cold. I submitted the altered record too but it didn't get chosen. Oh well...

Altered Record

Thanks for this incredible idea Claudia and Michele!

I AM LOVING IT!!

I created it using the new Basic Grey INFUSE collection. Here it is:

Thanks for sharing that ladies! I may even do it for a workshop I'm leading!!

Nope...

...Well I didn't get chosen for the Guest DT (design team) member spot for SavvynSassy...don't know what they are looking for I guess...maybe I should just stop applying for these things...maybe I'm just not good enough for a DT...I know I know, my mother would say just get right back up on the horse but it's tough taking all that rejection all the time. Oh well...there's a few DTs I was going to apply to this month but I'm not sure if I'm going to now...we'll see...if I do, I won't blog about it or think about it!! Then maybe something will happen...

Savvy N Sassy Guest Designer

I'm trying out to be a guest designer on the Savvy N Sassy forum...this is my submission...don't know if I'll get it but it's worth the shot!

I tried out a new technique from Ali Edwards' blog...painting over the lettering....it was lettering from the dollar store in town here so I'm okay with painting over it!!! :0D I like it!! We had to use at least two different ribbons, the ghost shapes and have at least one circle on the layout....well, I used three ribbons (two ric racs, and the green ribbon at the top); the ghost shapes are the hearts to the right; and the obvious circle and the Technique Tuesday stamp to the top left plus the buttons for circles too!! I'll let you know if I get the position!!! :0D

Sunday

I got together Sunday afternoon with a few girlfriends and a new one to add to our "clan"!! (It was great meeting you Deb! Hope you can join us again!!!) We met at Claudia's BEAUTIFUL house to create this cute little mini album made out of CD covers...(thanks to the Scrapping Turtle design team!) Here's my hockey themed album...and I used my new Gelatins NHL stamps (Thanks Hannah!!!)

Thanks girls! I had a wonderful time on Sunday! It was good to get together again!! We need to do it again soon!! (I'll leave you with this lovely picture of Bev!!!)

(Isn't she sexy?!?!?!!?)

Another BG pub!

I got something accepted again on the Basic Grey website!!!

Here's the link: http://www.basicgrey.com/catalog/idea_gallery_info.php?idea_gallery_id=20293

I'm so excited! They are altered canvases for my mom, mother-in-law and sister-in-law for Mother's Day...they all loved them and they all cried when they opened them!!! This is what they look like!!!

I'm off to do another canvas....should be fun...I got the idea off the Scrapbook Nook website. I'll post it when I'm done.

Go Scrapping Amazing Race Sketch

Hey everyone! I did another sketch! FINALLY!!! I am participating in the Go Scrapping Amazing Race contest and I had to create a sketch for a layout. Here it is!

Thanks Karen for the challenge! (I think I am out though...I had to avert a crisis at home so I didn't get a chance to finish it right away!!) I'll do a layout to match the sketch!!! Please do the same! I can't wait to see what you come up with!